Collaborative conversations with Life's wise whispers in service to personal and communal evolution. To book personal appointments and group experiences, contact me at circleways.james@gmail.com or at (416) 966 – 2685.

Archive for January, 2016

If you’re someone who values depth, beauty, symbols, and awareness, I’m excited to bring forth a brand new service for you called the Card of the Month Circle, a year-long process of reflection, enquiry, insight, and growth.

When you join the Card of the Month Circle, you will receive a personalised one-card email reading each month for a year, beginning February 1, to help you tune in to what you most need to know and learn. This is NOT fortune-telling, but rather it IS a way to witness your deepest truth mirrored in art and language so you can remember more of who you are and gain strategies for effective living. Each month, I will use a different deck of cards to connect you with your Knowing. Most will be tarot decks, but some will be equally evocative non-tarot decks.

As you’ll discover, this programme is MORE than just a “monthly card reading”. We’ll engage with the symbols in a variety of ways — simple reflections, poetic utterances, creative rituals, and goodness knows how else.

EXTRA GOODIES! In addition to a monthly card message/reflection, as a Card of the Month member you will receive a 15% discount on my regular offerings: private tarot consultations, personal reiki sessions, teleseminars, day-long and weekend workshops, and eight-week courses such as “Essentials of Tarot Reading” and “Tarot Counselling for Self and Others” for the duration of your year-long membership. Hurrah!

ONLY 40 people can become Card of the Month Circle members. Will you be one of them? To join, you have three payment options:

1. The full payment of $295 (best deal) sent to circleways.james@gmail.com via PayPal, or
2. Three installments of $110 sent to circleways.james@gmail.com via PayPal (final installment must be sent by the end of April, 2016).
3. Send a cheque or money order to James Wells (mailing address provided privately upon request).

This year-long service is first come, first served. After 40 people join the Card of the Month Circle, I will put remaining names on a waiting list for the following year. REMEMBER, it begins tomorrow, so sign up before midnight tonight.

In online fora and in conversations with prospective students, I’m often asked, “James, what’s a good beginner’s tarot deck?” My answer is that I don’t believe that there’s such a thing as a beginner’s deck or an advanced person’s deck. There’s a world of images out there and all tarot packs are fair game. I never impose any particular set of cards on my students. Some things to bear in mind about selecting a tarot deck include:

* Aesthetics. Is it visually appealing? Would you enjoy being in a room if its walls had these tarot images on it?

* Symbolism. Do the cards contain symbols that intrigue you, that you understand or want to know more about?

* Philosophy. In what worldview is the deck rooted? What is the deck creator’s way of experiencing and understanding existence? Is it a philosophy that you espouse or would at least like to try on for a while?